The Complete Air Wisper Guide

Everything you can do with your voice — and you can be set up in under a minute. Hold a key, speak, release. Your words land as clean, polished text in any app.

Speak naturally — Air Wisper transcribes on-device and cleans it up before it lands

Getting Started Dictation Text Transform Use Cases Tips & Tricks Keep Reading

Set up in a minute

Getting Started

Air Wisper lives in your menu bar — no window to manage. Three quick steps and you're dictating into any app.

Open Air Wisper from the menu bar

Grant permissions in Settings

Hold the hotkey and speak

The Air Wisper menu bar icon and dropdown menu on macOS — Air Wisper sits in your menu bar — click the icon to open Settings or History.

One Shortcut

⌥D Dictation — speak, get polished text typed into any app

Hold the shortcut, speak, release. That's it. The shortcut is configurable in Settings.

First time? In Settings, make sure Microphone, Accessibility, and Speech Recognition are all granted — you're looking for three green checkmarks.

Voice to Text

Dictation

Hold ⌥D, speak naturally, release. Your speech is transcribed on-device, polished by AI (fixing grammar, punctuation, and filler words), and typed into the active app.

The Air Wisper recording overlay transcribing speech in real time — The overlay shows what it hears as you speak — then quietly cleans it up on release.

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How Dictation Works

Apple Speech transcribes on-device (free, private)

AI cleans up grammar, punctuation, and filler words

Polished text is typed into the active app

What you say

"hey sarah um just wanted to follow up on ~~like~~ yesterday's meeting i think we should ~~basically~~ move forward with the redesign"

What gets typed

Hey Sarah, just wanted to follow up on yesterday's meeting. I think we should move forward with the redesign.

Works everywhere. Slack, Mail, Notion, VS Code, your browser, any text field. No copy-paste needed — text appears right where your cursor is.

AI Text Transform

Transform Selected Text

Select text in any app, hold ⌥C, say what to do with it. The selected text is replaced with the transformed version, in-place.

Hey, just checking if we are still good for tomorrow.

“Make this more formal”

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Hi — I wanted to confirm whether we’re still on for tomorrow.

Select text, hold ⌥C and say the change — the selection is rewritten in place.

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Examples

"Make this more formal" Rewrites in a professional tone
"Translate to Spanish" Translates the selected text
"Shorten this" Condenses while keeping meaning
"Fix the grammar" Corrects errors in-place
"Turn this into bullet points" Reformats as a list
"Make it friendlier" Adjusts tone
"Summarize this" Creates a brief summary
"Explain this simply" Rewrites for clarity

Works in Electron apps too. Notion, Slack, Chrome, VS Code — text transform works everywhere you can select text, even in apps that don't support the Accessibility API natively.

Inspiration

Real-World Use Cases

Dictation shines when you're writing long-form, replying to messages, or polishing prose without breaking flow.

Someone using Air Wisper to dictate at their desk — From Slack replies to commit messages — talk it out, get clean text.

✏️ Writing & Editing

Select a paragraph and transform it with your voice. Fix grammar, change tone, translate, or summarize.

Select text → "Make this more concise and professional"

💬 Messaging

Reply to Slack, iMessage, or email at speaking speed. Air Wisper cleans up the grammar and punctuation as you go.

"hey can you take a look at the latest pr when you get a chance" → cleaned and typed

📝 Note Capture

Brain-dump into Notion, Apple Notes, or your editor. Dictate raw thoughts and let Air Wisper turn them into readable text.

Open your notes app, hold ⌥D, talk through what's on your mind.

💻 Coding Comments & Docs

Write commit messages, README sections, and inline comments by voice. Faster than typing, especially for long-form explanations.

Dictate a commit message describing what you just changed.

Pro Tips

Tips & Tricks

Speak naturally. You don't need robotic phrasing. Just talk — Air Wisper cleans up filler words and punctuation for you.

Text transform works everywhere. Select text in any app (even Electron apps like Notion and Slack), hold ⌥D, describe what to do, release. The text is replaced in-place.

Cloud vs Local engine. Local (default) is 4x faster and fully private. Cloud is more accurate for complex speech. Switch in Settings based on your needs.

Customize your shortcut. Don't like ⌥D? Change it in Settings > Shortcuts to any key combination that works for you.

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